Re: [QLD] Red Rattlers be damned!

["Peter Dwyer" <peter.dwyer@qr.com.au>]

scrivener <roywilke@notanispatall.net.au> wrote in message
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> >Brisbane had very old swing-door wooden dog-box cars that I remember
> >being pulled by steam locos when I visited there when I was very young
> >in the 1960s, and some were still running being pulled by diesel locos
> >when I spent a year there (living in Warrawee Street Toowong, my brother
> >still lives in the same house) in 1969-70.  I can't remember the colour,
> >they may have been red. They may have been green. Or both. They were
> >damned archaic I can tell you.
>
> You're talking about the "Evans" coaches which were introduced in the
> early 1910s and remained in service until about 1980.
>

They were still in service on the Pinkenba line in 1984....

These are the bench seat types with the individual doors, I presume?